English: Calico hearts.
Synonym: Adromischus truncatus; Cotyledon triflora.
Genus: ± 40 species.
Region: South Africa, Little Karoo.
Habitat: on gravelly lower slopes, near rock outcrops; in shade or shows hardship from full sun; altitude 50 to 1800 metres above sea level.
BotanyExquisite dwarf perennial succulent; in clusters with decumbent stems to 20 cm long.
Stems: stemlets decumbent or prostrate; 8 to 10 to 20 cm long, little branched from the base.
Roots: fibrous.
Leaves: variable shape and size; reddish speckles, more intense in bright light, sometimes the leaves are devoid of spots; erectly spreading, decussate, oblanceolate, obovate-spatulate, to obtriangular, rarely oblanceolate-rhombic, 3 to 7 cm long, 1 to 3 cm wide; cuneate to shortly petiolate, mostly truncate, rarely obtuse, usually convex on both sides, thicker in the lower part, horny margin in upper half, silvery grey, grey-green to greyish brown, glaucous, with tiny waxy dots, often (but not always) with red splotches mostly on the upper leaf.
Inflorescence: thyrse; 20 to 35 cm tall; l to 3 to 5 flowered cymes, grey-green; pedicels 1 to 6 mm long.
Flowers: greenish on the outside and white or pink inside the petals; blooms in summer; curved apices of the buds; buds terete and curved at the apex, spreading.
Calyx: 1 to 2 mm long, grey-green.
Corolla: tube cylindrical 8-10 mm, yellowish-green, corolla lobes lanceolate-triangular, 3-5 mm long, white or pink with purple margins, and with club-shaped trichomes mainly towards throat Anthers included. Squamae square to oblong-ovate, 0,9-1,1 x 0,7-0,9 mm, emarginate, broadest at about the midle or below.